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This comes as no surprise in the world's most politically correct country. The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics have snubbed the RAF's Red Arrows display team in case they offend other nations. The Red Arrows have performed nearly 4,000 displays world-wide, in over fifty countries, and...

World War I claimed the lives of over 700,000 British soldiers. At the time, the British Army numbered almost 3 million soldiers. Around the same number of British soldiers were injured in the war. This obviously left over a million British women at home with a dilemma...... Condemned to be...

EURO 2008 QUALIFICATION Deadly Michael Owen is now back on form for both club and country. After being out of the game for months after suffering a dreadful injury during the World Cup in June 2006, he is now back and scoring goals both for Newcastle United and England. After scoring a goal...

A man in Cornwall was attacked by a woman from Cornwall's "racism and equality council" for telling "anti-Irish" jokes. The silly thing about all this is that the man telling the jokes is an Irishman...... LITTLEJOHN: Good evening, I'm from ethics, in case you couldn't tell! 13th September...

A library book on bomb-making, sir? You'll find it under Religion 7th September 2007 Daily Mail RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Borrowed any good books from your local public library lately? I'm told Women Who Deserve To Go To Hell is proving especially popular in Tower Hamlets, east London...

RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007 - FRANCE World Cup holders England beat minnows USA, ranked just 15th in the world, by just 18 points at the Stade Felix Bollaert in Lens on Friday in their opening game of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. England won the World Cup in 2003 with a 20-17 victory over Australia in...

England took another step closer to qualifying for Euro 2008 after a magnificent win over Israel at Wembley. The win moved the Three Lions up one place to third in Group E on 17 points, just one point behind Russia who England play on Wednesday and three points behind group leaders Croatia...

Despite having a bad press recently, British police are still the best in the world and the British justice system is still the best in the world and has been copied by Britain's daughters, such as the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. That may be one reason why the British have so little...

EU wants to get rid of the Queen from our passports By MATTHEW HICKLEY 10th September 2007 Daily Mail Mention of the Queen could be removed from British passports and replaced by a page explaining why all EU citizens are entitled to use our embassies abroad, it emerged yesterday...

Sgt Craig Brelsford, of the Mercian Regiment, died during a fierce battle with the Taliban as he bravely led a platoon back into enemy fire to help save his fallen comrades. Heroic soldier killed in daring mission as he tried to save his fallen comrades in Afghanistan 10th September 2007...

This week, a Eurostar train travelling on a new high-speed railway line travelled the 215 miles from Paris to London in two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds - a record ever time for a train journey between the two great cities. But this high-speed railway link, running from Kent to London...

Blair's sinister campaign to undermine the Queen 5th September 2007 Daily Mail No respect for the royals: The Blairs show their boredom at the Highland Games (notice Cherie yawning). Blair was critised many times for being too "presidential" as Prime Miniser. In a provocative and...

The French FINALLY realise that the rest of the world views them as arrogant 6th September 2007 Daily Mail Nicolas Sarkozy: Holding his hands up to claims the French are 'arrogant' It may come as no surprise to the rest of the world. But the French were aghast last night after...

Where there's oil ... If Scotland were to become independent, could it really survive economically? From public spending to North Sea revenue, Ashley Seager does the maths Thursday February 8, 2007 The Guardian Many Scots dream of going it alone, believing that an independent Scotland...

Just watch the Brits get the blame for America's chaotic withdrawal 31st August 2007 Daily Mail Just for a change, President Bush has got it right - sort of. There is, indeed, a comparison, an alarming one, between the humiliating end of the war in Vietnam and what can (and will) happen...

Iran is probably one of the few countries, especially in the Islamic world, that hates the British more than it hates the Americans. This dates back to the days when Britain reigned supreme in the world when Iran - then Persia - lost parts of its territories to the British Empire. The British...

The Daily Telegraph is with the British Army in Afghanistan as it hunts the Taliban... British troops hunt the Taliban in Afghanistan 02/09/2007 The Telegraph Defence Correspondent Sean Rayment and photographer Justin Sutcliffe join the men of The Royal Anglian Regiment as they scour...

The Queen suffered fits of giggles as she attended the Highland Games in Aberdeenshire... Queen in fits of giggles as formal facade slips 1st September 2007 Daily Mail As guest of honour at countless worthy events, the Queen is used to maintaining a formal facade as she sits patiently...

The 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death How can our future King be so badly out of touch? By CHRISTOPHER WILSON 26th August 2007 Daily Mail Friday 31st August is the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana Diana said there were 'three of us in this marriage'...

Of the two versions of cricket - Test cricket that lasts up to five days and two innings each team and One Day cricket that has limited overs (usually 50) and one inning each team, as its name applies, is played over only one day - England have been much better at the Test version where they are...